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  Fortune Favors the merits of not working too hard

  

  and author. You may have seen Moneyball, the movie based on his ... has to say (seriously, go read it). But I wanted to hone in on the point ... , you may find yourself fortunately positioned such that...and on and on

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • June 5, 2012
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Making Your Dorm Room a Piece of Art! [by Elise '14]...and how MIT'll help you!

  

  means taking on the job of making a home out of a small shared room with ... , but more on that later.  Before and After! At home, I was ... bedrooms with my brother at one point so I could paint a mural on a larger

  • by ARTalk
  • November 24, 2011
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Trumpeting for Assassins I get to watch each presidential assassination. Live. Over and over again.

  

  't like feeling a vibrating reed on my tongue, I shuffled into the band room ... act was to place the flugelhorn on a stand that Matt lent me, which ... instruments, I dropped the trumpet on my lap, swung the flugelhorn to my lips

  • by Anna H. '14
  • August 26, 2011
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Summer Listening What's in your stereo?

  

  What all started as a blatant rip-off of Kris's post on summer ... Taken a Math Class at MIT) See, I wanted to write a post on stuff I ... , which determines a song's relative "summerness" based on qualities of

  • by Elizabeth Choe '13
  • August 12, 2011
• Blog / MIT Life

  Veni, Vidi, Jamba I came, I saw, I conquered a lot of smoothies

  

  . I started this summer with some easy trips. A day on Folsom lake in ... for a real adventure. It all started with my mom’s DVD set on National Parks. Or did it all begin when I read an article on the epic Dipsea Race

  • by Maggie L. '12
  • August 15, 2010
• Blog / MISTI

  ~*~Thoughts Are Like Traces of Birds In Heaven~*~ (P.S. I finally added pictures to my last entry - sorry about the delay!)

  

  'Germany 2010' album on my computer currently contains 1,563 photos - and a ... I blogged, I was on a train from Darmstadt to Salem; since then, I ... , unbelievably, my last week here in Germany. On the last day of teaching in Berlin

  • by Hamsika C. '13
  • July 19, 2010
• Blog / Admissions

  Presenting…My Prefrosh! ‚ô•

  

  :25 to be exact. Nonetheless, lady luck was NOT on my side Thursday morning ... nice to meet you!!! Add me on facebook ;) I also met Ameesh, a high ... !) After finally getting on my flight two and a half hours later than

  • by Hamsika C. '13
  • April 18, 2010
• Blog / Admissions

  Some recommendations about recommendations Some things to think about as you look for letters from teachers.

  

  letter on your behalf. Please recognize that teachers are very busy ... better approach than just leaving the recommendation form on their chair ... ; recommendations will need to be on paper and mailed to the admissions office. We

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • September 24, 2009
• Blog / Academics & Research

  My Shortest Blog Ever (update 3 =p) 19 days till Taiwan!

  

  class, but for some really dumb reason, I lost a bunch of points on this last (3rd) test, and now I absolutely need an A+ on the next test to ... author makes no guarantees on the confidence interval or whether a survey

  • by Chris S. '11
  • May 4, 2009
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Mikey’s Meta TV Post ...In which you find out about the good, bad, and really bad shows I love…

  

  most shows are taking holiday breaks, I've been able to catch up a bit on ... it airs on, in case you're curious): 25. Cash Cab - Discovery Channel ... on Nickelodeon...) 17. America's Best Dance Crew - MTV 16. Survivor

  • by Mikey Yang '05
  • December 24, 2008
• Blog / Academics & Research

  When Econ Comes to Life This has nothing to do with econ, but you should watch it.

  

  my poster and have to rely on the copy that my friend Anna has hanging ... 've done just over half of all the items on that chart. One item that I ... 's 7 active Nobel laureates* on the MIT faculty, it's definitely possible

  • by Chris S. '11
  • November 18, 2008
• Blog / Academics & Research

  How hard is it, really? Let down

  

  'd gotten a 730 on my SAT II but only because I'd crammed two days before the ... took a physics class in high school but it was more hands on and not AP ... set assigned. I worked on the problem set and realized that I wasn

  • by Snively '11
  • April 9, 2008
• Blog / MIT Life

  Birthday Boy Ben Birthday explosion inside.

  

  pretty much one of the most popular guys on campus. (Not that we don't love ... an ego-boost, or even to crash on his couch. And so a few of my friends ... of Sam, Laura, AND Ben Jones' Mom), we set out on our missions

  • by Paul B. '11
  • January 12, 2008
• Blog / Academics & Research

  The Application Cycle Your MIT application is just the beginning

  

  (“You’ve landed on the ‘Guidance Counselors’ Office.’ Collect your letters ... will validate years of hard work and sacrifice, and set you on a new and ... decisions will make a profound impact on the rest of our lives. My classmates

  • by Melis A. '08
  • December 1, 2007
• Blog / Admissions

  What Is Your LΔ? What about heart? What about determination? What about resilience?

  

  is not just based on results, but includes effort and hard work. Many ... knowledge base. By focusing on LΔ we can really zero in on YOUR individual growth. The LΔ allows us to focus on the process, not just the outcome

  • by Bryan G. Nance
  • January 18, 2007
• Blog / MIT Life

  Look as good you will not Some summer reading for the nerds out there. Which means all of you.

  

  want to fabricate really bad, fake narratives loosely based on the ... year (Burton-Conner has a free rental movie collection) to brush up on ... Star Wars: Musical Edition. But, yes, Revenge of the Sith did come on

  • by Sam M. '07
  • August 1, 2006
• Blog / About Decisions

  The Undecideds VII: Decided? T-minus one day until the reply form postmark deadline.

  

  questions! I'm happy to do answer questions, and most of the bloggers are on hand for help. 2. Read Melis' most recent entry on how she made her ... a lot of surfing on each school's web sites to gather as much

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • April 30, 2006
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Why I do what I do A few reasons I'm still on this planet.

  

  what I'm doing and such -- so I thought I'd clue you all in on my raison ... working this term about 15 hours in the lab each week. I work on the weekends, on school holidays, and on national holidays. In 2004, I didn

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • February 24, 2006
• Blog / Events

  Livin’ La Vida PRoCa I take my clothes off and go dancing in the rain... with Clay Aiken.

  

  for a second. Would you really continue toward that sign? Read on at ... on Google image search. I hope nobody walking by can see the computer ... a picture of Clay Aiken stuck inside a television set on it. In public

  • by Sam M. '07
  • August 30, 2005
• Blog / MIT Life

  I am a hapless klutz Stories about Nobel laureates.

  

  , and Morgan doesn't want to "waste" grant money on a new ice machine when ... the project my postdoc and I have been working on to the entire Picower Center. And since my postdoc is an MD/PhD and goes to the hospital on

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • August 22, 2005